The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-15
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

Near kingston anu ID I1OrIlDly w
tilated-A Black Incendiary Lodged
in Jail at Sparta-A Case Which Has
Been on Trial 23 Years.
GEORGIA.
J. H. Sergeant, weil-lsnown citizen of
Rome, is dying.
Bluffton reports that sugar cane and
potatoes are needing rain.
Adjt. Gen. Kell has issued an order re-
ouiring the Griffin Light Guards 60 hold an
election on Sept. II.
The Rome Land Company's bridge, across
the Oostanaula river, is completed with the
exception of two panels of hand railing,
which are daily expected to arrive.
The price paid by the City Council Of
Brunswick for the Baptist church was
81, $50. and not $3.50 as at first reported
The building is to be used for school pur-
poses.
A. w. Quinn, of Sandersville, who served
in the was. and at its close said he would not
shave anS ra .rtil Democratic Pres-
dent was ,'Nc>t$, Sept his promise and
never shaH>' In This court.
At the reguIa.' 'ecting of the city Coun-
Gil, of Americas Monday evening. the
proposition of Mai. w. F. Ellis, of Mont
gonlery, Ala, to erect gas works in Ameri-
Gus, was taken up for consideration and it
was finally accepted.
Frank Williams, the young man scalded
in the explosion at Prices mill last week,
died at Poulan Monday Mr. Williams was
the son of the late lamented Judge j. i.
Williams, of Terrell, who was a highly re-
spected and useful citizen.
At meeting of the members of the Bap-
fist church of Americas, held after the
regular service Sunday morning, it was
fully determined among them to rebuild
their church, which was destroyed by fire
some three or four years ago.
John Booth is progressing finely on his
new brick store just 80 the Banner
Waterman off,, at fSroaa Before long
the house in -.at < IL. san's -. Waterman
now has its oSice viii be torn doSr and a
fine brick house pHF'.p its place.
Some Baker county ge.ts-.I ~. who wero
in Albany Monday, sad GA; 49, heard
the cannon that were fired here ~ 'send
off" to the veterans of the Fourth Georgia
Regiment on last Thursday morning, at
their homes seven miles below Newton.
Jack W. Slappey started the manufacture
of cider and vinegar at Marshallville on a
large scale, for the purpose of selling at
wholesale. hut on account of the dry
weather his cell :? watar gave out, and he
has moved his enterprise to Fort Valley
Constant Biting a negro man aged 60,
Dalton. He was seen alive in the morning,
but had been in a bad condition for several
months with scrofula. The Coroner's in
quest gave the case as strangulated hernia.
At Marshsllville ins. difticAiay Saturday
night, Ike Gi[.liis1M ,fsS nap Mc(iee in
the breast, al ; En-. - and - owed fatal A
woman was the "sa!.-4 = trouble. They
were both pea Ss;'' ~ Gsa-ustrious negroes.
Ike is out on hgs.S { qs evidence being that
L., \ = ., ~ eaIf Il,
Romes new morning daily will make its
first appearance on or about Sept. 20. 1t
will be knava as the Rome Tribune. Col.
John T. Gravcs, fot1S~r of the Atlanta
Journal, will be editor-in-chief A. Brooks,
of Tuskegee Ala, will be business manager.
The Tribune viii take the Associated Press
dispatches.
There was another wreck on the Bruins
wick and Western road Tuesday morning,
between VAUDEVILLE and Triton. some ten or
fifteen miles east of Ty-Ty. 1t was an
empty lumber train, going up the road to
some of the mills to load with lumber.
There were six or eight cars derailed, prob
ably falling off a trestle
j. NJ Malcolm brakeman on freight
No. Is, which pass Kingston a little be
fore o'clock, following the 4 o'clock pas
senger, was killed and his body horribly
mutilated by falling from a coal car while
putting on the brakes Tuesday, Two coal
cars were booked for Kingston, and the ac-
cident happened while side-tracking them,
Cooper Pops. of Washin seon. has pur-
chased the halI intef est of Col. 7. L. CAN'T
in the ASSens Bonner Waterman, and
with pleasant Stovall, will hereafter have
charge of that able and sprightly sheet.
Mr.. Pope is a graduate of the class of 81 of
the State University, and afterward of the
law department Of the University of Nir-
ginia.
The steamer Ada has been overhauled and
supplied with a new wheel, and has gone
from Albany to Apalachicola for inspection
and registration. The owners of the boat
have spent about $500 on improvements.
and the craft is now in good trim Upon
its return from Apalachicola the Ada will
make q res,sssr schedule between Albany
and points down the river.
j. f. Pate, of Button, found a strange
freak of nature last Wednesday. 1t was a
stalk of cotton bearing twenty well de-
veloped and fully grown bolls not one of
which contained lock of cotton, but were
filed with small black seed as clean and
slick as beans. When the bolls opened the
seed would drop out, and every boil the
stalk had ever borne contained nothing but
these seed
Miss p has class in the Methodist Sun
day school, at Brunswick, composed of a
k.sulber of bright little girls Last Sunday
&hey were to recite number of verses from
the Bible, in competition for a prize. Two
or three made the attempt at recitation and
failed. At last one little tot exclaimed: 81
know it, | can say it" and she proceeded
1.-THE Lord made the erfth in six days, and
on the seventh -He-He-holidoyed it,
(hallowed.)
For the last two days case has been on
trial in Butts Superior Court that has lasted
for twenty-eight years. The original suit
was for the recovery of some negroes, and
was begun in 1859. The negroes were finally
freed, and only the cost bill of some $50
remained, and is now being tried before
Probate Judge Beck, Judge Boynton being
disqualified. The counsel are John /. Hall
and Stewart against Anderson, McKibben
and Wright. The case has outlived the
issues for which it was entered on the docket
The syndicate" of local capitalists who
recently bought the Americas bridge over
Flint river, went down in body on Sunday
morning TO inspect their new purchase
They were very much pleased with the APP
pearance of things, and are more firmly
convinced than ever that they "have got a
good thing in the bridge. No repairs will
have to be made thereon in at least two
years, during which time the income in the
way of tolls will more than pay the pur-
chase money. Mr. Joiner, of Dooly county,
will be bridge keeper
The business of Milledpeville is moro r,ros-